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The British miscellany, or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles : and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby (1806)

Author: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822; Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner. DSI; Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- donor. DSI
Volume: v. 1-2 (1806)
Subject: Zoology
Publisher: London : Printed by R. Taylor & Co., and sold by the author, J. Sowerby by White, Johnson, Symonds, and all other booksellers
Language: English
Call number: 39088015066467
Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian; americana
Notes: Cullman Library (rare book); a very small number of plates has text/image run into the gutter

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Vol. 2 without separate t.p

Each plate has explanatory text

Plates are hand-colored

Errata: at foot of p. 136, v. 2

Includes index

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SCNHRB copy (39088015066467) bound as 1 v

SCNHRB copy has pages 127-[132] bound between p. vi and p.1

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry

SCNHRB copy half bound in calf and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers

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